Approved of in France the law that on board allows the boarding of private armed teams of the ships



Yesterday the French Parliament has adopted definitively the bill n. 357 on the private activities of protection of the ships that will allow with the French shipowners to resort to private societies in order to guarantee safety of the units of own fleets, being embarked armed teams in order to prevent and to contrast the piracy actions. The green light of the assembly parliamentarian is received with enthusiasm from the shipowning association Armateurs de France, that it has defined the provision "an action hard for the competitiveness of the French flag".

"The ballot of this text - the president of Armateurs de France has commented, Raymond Vidil - without a doubt constitutes a victory for our companies and our marine ones, whose safety more and more is threatened in various world-wide areas. With this bill we have new reasons in order to believe in the competitiveness of the French flag. Now - it has concluded Vidil - we attend shortly you decree application, so that the law can become operating within september".

The shipowning association has evidenced that from the 2008 French shipowners they are found to face a recrudescence of the piracy that threatens safety of the ships and the marine ones, situation - Armateurs de France has remembered - that the possibility has induced the association to speed up in order more two-year-old than to on board embark private guards of the ships clappers French flag when the teams of Marina Militare, calls in many other theaters of operations, cannot answer to all the demands for protection of the French ships.

Armateurs de France has remembered moreover that it attacks to it against the Ponant ships in 2008 and Gascogne and Adour in the 2013 have had a deep impact on the shipowning enterprises and the French crews and that piracy has had as consequence a reduction of the competitiveness of the French flag as the ships was disabled to approach to some markets because they did not have a guaranteed continuous protection from armed teams.

Today - it has found Armateurs de France - the use of private safety is more important that never since, if the arranged efforts of the shipowners and the international community have carried to clearly a decrease in attack in the Indian Ocean, continuous piracy instead growing in West Africa and in the Asian south-east, for example in the offshore Nigerian and the Gulf of Guinea where they are you anticipate many French societies.